Clinical Data
72-year-old woman:
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- Presenting with acute-onset confusion and anterograde amnesia
1. What structures are affected?
2. What is the differential diagnosis?
3. What is the most likely diagnosis?
4. What is the most likely aetiology?
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Bilateral paramedian thalami.
Differential: AOP infarction, venous thrombosis, Wernicke encephalopathy.
Most likely diagnosis: Bilateral paramedian thalamic infarction.
Aetiology: Artery of Percheron occlusion.